X.509 trust-chain bypass (path-depth exhaustion) in the OpenSSL compatibility certificate verifier (wolfSSLX509verifycert()). This affects only builds with --enable-opensslextra whose application calls X509verifycert() with caller-supplied untrusted intermediates; for those users it is critical, otherwise the library is unaffected. Native wolfSSL TLS/DTLS usage is not impacted. X509verifycert() returned success based only on the last verified link rather than on reaching a trust anchor: when the supplied chain is deeper than the verifier's maximum path depth (default 100), path building runs out of depth while still walking untrusted intermediates and the chain is accepted even though it never reaches a configured trust anchor, allowing acceptance of an attacker-controlled certificate. The default TLS handshake (WOLFSSLVERIFYPEER) is not affected; only applications doing manual or deferred verification through this API are.

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2009-4484 to the following vulnerability:

Buffer overflow in the server in MySQL 5.0.51a on Linux allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted data to TCP port 3306, as demonstrated by the vdmysql5 module in VulnDisco Pack Professional 8.11. NOTE: as of 20100106, this disclosure has no actionable information. However, because the VulnDisco Pack author is a reliable researcher, the issue is being assigned a CVE identifier for tracking purposes.

References: http://intevydis.blogspot.com/2010/01/jan-4-2010-mysql-exploit-demo.html http://intevydis.com/vd-list.shtml http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=7900 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/37640

More details about the issue may be disclosed in about 2 weeks: http://intevydis.blogspot.com/2010/01/jan-72010-0day-awareness.html